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  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Supramolecular Chemistry

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  • Thermoplastics offer processability and recyclability but often lack the thermochemical stability and mechanical strength of thermosets.
  • Reconciling recyclability with robustness in polymers remains a significant challenge in materials science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce an innovative approach for creating robust and recyclable polymers using reversibly cross-linked squaramide moieties.
  • To synthesize and characterize supramolecularly cross-linked polysquaramides with enhanced mechanical properties and tunable viscoelastic behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Condensation polymerization of diethyl squarate with primary and secondary diamines to synthesize polysquaramides.
  • Material characterization using dynamic mechanical analysis, creep-recovery, and stress relaxation experiments.
  • Modulation of glass transition temperature (Tg) by altering monomer composition and stoichiometry.

Main Results:

  • Synthesized polysquaramides with significantly enhanced storage moduli, reaching up to 1.2 GPa.
  • Observed a distinctive rubbery plateau over a broad temperature range, excellent creep resistance, and multimodal viscoelastic flow.
  • Demonstrated tunability of polymer viscoelastic properties through precise control over hydrogen bonding interactions via squaramide motifs.

Conclusions:

  • Incorporation of squaramide motifs provides structural integrity and mechanical performance comparable to thermosets while retaining thermoplastic recyclability.
  • Developed engineering materials with tailored viscoelastic characteristics through controlled supramolecular cross-linking.
  • The squaramide moiety effectively bridges the performance gap between thermoplastics and thermosets.